What a way to end the year.

It was indeed a year of many happenings and I don't even know where to begin. But first off, yours truly has just turned 30 years old and I would like to steal a little of the time to thank God for his faithfulness and blessings in the past years. Without Him, there would be no me and no today definitely. That I am sure of. Besides thanking God, I also took a little time to thank some close friends who stood with me and accepted me over the years. So, I threw a small party at PC's house on the 17th. One of the first gifts was 99 stalks of roses! hehehe...

Poor PC. She cut her finger with the knife while preparing the food. We were gonna have steamboat.

The discipleship girls started coming and we all chipped in to prepare. As I was thinking about throwing this party, I just realised that we girls were in this discipleship group for about 6 years together. Wow. Without us realising it, it was already 6 years that we shared lives and shared tears and heart. Although we were not all best of friends but we did go through some of the good times and bad times together. It was a beautiful thought for me. So, the party was especially dedicated to thank them.

They asked around and know that Words is my love language and so they made this specially for me. There's a chocolate with a verse for 30 days! haaha... I almost cried when I saw it. It was most thoughtful of them!

Immediately the next morning was followed by a wedding. Some of you may know them - Kevin Tan & Laurene (Chai Leng). They were with us when studying at at IMU and is still very much a part of Eaglepoint even now. The wedding was held at One World Hotel. It was a beautiful wedding and all of us were happy to see them get married since they were high school sweethearts and had been dating for so long! I'm sure the people who are most happy would be their parents!

Caught the cheeky face of Pastor Shawn & Jill's daughter (Kristen) and can't resist to post it up! hahhaa...

The wedding crew were powered by some Eaglepoint-ers! I was NOT the coordinator but YC ended up cue-ing the sound?! YC the soundgirl?! hahaha..

Aww... PC and the bride. She was also the one that shared a verse during the ceremony in the morning. Pastor Steven was the "spiritual MC" and Pastor Shawn preached a message.

Followed closely was the church staff christmas gift exchange party! yahoo! Was supposed to be a lunch thing but due to changes in schedule, ended up being a breakfast thing. The night before, many of us toong-siew (work overnight) and stayed at church and woke up to the party! hahaha... Everyone was supposed to come in something red or green and bring a present for another staff that they picked the name out of a bag. They were also supposed to share one thing they discovered about the person in the week preceding this event.

I wanted to thank the staffs and so the food was on me this morning! It was a Malaysian breakfast - there was sausage and egg and bread and there was pau and siew mai and such - whatever goes. Everyone tried to discover something new about their colleague and shared. I got something from Pastor Steven - Tesco Voucher! hahaha... Pastor Tim actually sms-ed Aaron to find out what would Chrystin like and got her a hand bag! wow! hahaha..

Then, it was Christmas Service already. Felt like we just had the Christmas service last year and now it's already here and over. This year, 1a.m. pulled the plugs and did a musical journey with the FLC ensemble! It was really good!

Cuzario's drummer students came together for one of the piece as well!

And of course Pastor Tim preached on the gift that changes everything!

Every year, PC and Kel will throw a family party some time during the Christmastime. Gathering all the family together for a meal. For the past few years, it was held at Pastor Tim's house but THIS YEAR, they moved into their own house by the lake and we were all gathered at their place! I was the god-sister so I got invited annually too ...

Being a chemist by education, she was not preparing salad but making a "chemistrically-felt-right-mixture" of the ingredients!

I helped to grill the chicken wings...

After that, there was the Community at Heart post coming up. And I left to Bali for a break with Yean Ching and Jocelyn. Annual retreat from the busyness in life! See you next year!

Merry Christmas from Eaglepoint office!

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THG Update for you!

The Heavenly Gift is a project by Community at Heart partnering with IOI Mall, where we offer free gift wrapping services, at the same time making known the community needs to the shoppers, encouraging them to join us in making a positive change to our community. It has started on the 3rd of December and will adjourned on the 24th!

This is how the booth looks like a day before we put up the profiles and the bunting at old wing. I was both nervous of how things will turn up yet really excited to see how things will turn out!

Eaglepoint Damansara student team took a time slot and chipped in their efforts as well. They were so diligent and unabashedly introduced the profiles to shoppers and collected over a thousand ringgit for their time slot... and of course photo taking is a must part of the event!

This week, IS THE PURCHASING WEEK! Purchasing week spells out to 3 to 4 days of buying and buying and buying and buying.... you get the idea... Last year, we spent one whole day from about 11am to around 8pm at Jusco and then unload to office and head over to Tesco to continue another round. This year, we spent half day at Tesco for the first day, about 12pm-10pm on day two at Tesco again, about 2pm-9pm on day three, two hours at Jusco on day four and 11am-2pm at Tesco and another couple of hours at Mydin just now. Every single gift pack are bought with thoughts and different from another pack.

These are round one of the uniforms and I called in the teens to help sort it out.

This was day two, round one spending at Tesco.

See how long is the list? hahaha... even the staffs at the shop was staring at how much stuffs we bought. Four trolleys piled full. It was indeed tiring. Me and Chee Wei was in charge of buying for BRO, Agape and Joanna was buying for Shelter Homes, Keith and Tabitha was buying for Rumah Juara and Rumah Shalom. I think we practically cleared all the uniforms at Tesco between the few of us!

Upon reaching office, everything will be sorted to profile numbers, ready to be wrapped and then we will do a final run through the list again to ensure each child's pack is not left out before we sealed it into the big bag according to homes. It is a lot of work and a lot of mixed up that caused us to constantly revisit the list to compare. Friends and family from all walks of lives contributed to make THG a success... from the teens, working adults, parents, CEOs, Businessmen, students and the mothers that cannot be stationed at the booth, came to wrap these gifts for the children at office.

let there be light....

two nights ago, pastor tim called me and asked if i could resurrect the christmas tree... so yesterday, after spending thousands at tesco, me n keith came back around 10:30pm to start working on resurrecting the christmas tree and ..... tah dah..... below is the result and we finish around 1am! (then, keith went home and started decorating the christmas tree at his house till 3am)

see?! told ya i've spend thousands at tesco! this is just round one of many rounds! IT IS THG PURCHASING WEEK! By the time me n Keith came back from Tesco, it was so late that nobody was here so two of just walked like a hundred times up and down the stairs to bring everything from the car to the kids room 2! by the time we finish, we were drenched in dripping sweat...